Making money with Alts in WoD

Hi,\r\r\rWhen I saw the announcement of the possibility of Game Time for Gold in What's in Store for 2015 from Blizzard, I decided to actually try and amass a bit of gold in the game. This is probably the first time ever I've really concentrated on earning gold. I'll tell you how I've gone from 60K to 260K in only a few weeks (and could be done faster if you wanted to). Since then, I am rolling in it at about 1.5 Million gold.\r\rI'm on twitter at https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tall_Brit\r\rMy Blogs are at http:\/\/lankygw2blog.blogspot.com and http:\/\/lankyblog.blogspot.com\r\rLet's get into the methods I use:\r\r\rSoloing Old Raids\r\rI wait until my characters are level 100 to do this, but you could always do them with lower level alts if you want. You get gold from each boss, as well as items that vendor well. You also get lots of gold from mobs and also some vendor trash and occasional BOE drops. If you just vendor everything you'll make at least a few hundred per run.\r\rI've done some testing. A Terres de Feu run nets me about 700-750g just from vendoring. A Le bastion du Crépuscule + H Grim Batol nets me about 800-850g just from vendoring.\r\r\r\r\rI do Cata Raids on 10N. Obviously, there is better loot and rewards for 10H or 25N and 25H. I do 10N because I have trouble with some of the bosses on higher difficulties, and for the speed of the run.\r\rLe bastion du Crépuscule - The entrance is In Twilight Highlands, at the top of the Spire in the West. To get to Twilight Highland, use the Portal in SWC\/Org. If you don't have the portal, just do the initial quests for Twilight Highlands to open the Portal. Read the comments on Cho’gall to avoid resetting him. Oh, and some times, I run out of BoT when I've finished, and make the short flight north to Grim Batol, and do a quick Heroic Grim Batol for more gold and Etoffe de braise-soie.\r\rTerres de Feu - The entrance is in the south of Mount Hyjal. Use the Portal in SWC\/Org to get there. Pretty straight forward Raid. Make sure to kill Rageface first in the Shannox battle.\r\rL’Âme des dragons - The entrance is in the Caverns of Time, in northTanaris. Use the portal in Darlan to get there, or use the Portal to Uldum in SWC\/Org and fly there. I do up until Spine of Deathwing and then port out. I haven't got the hang of that yet.\r\rDescente de l’Aile noire - The entrance is in Searing Gorge, halfway up the Mountain, on the East. Just fly there from SWC. Don't know the best way to get there as Horde. Pretty straight forward Raid.\r\rI do as many of these as I can on as many characters, and make quite a bit of gold from just vendoring everything, but AHing Etoffe de braise-soie.\r\r\r\rI do WOTLK Raids on 25N. There are better rewards for 25H, but again, I have trouble with that difficulty, and for the the speed of the runs.\r\rCitadelle de la Couronne de glace - The entrance is in Icecrown, in the south. Just fly there from Dalaran. Pretty straight forward Raid. Make sure to start blasting with the cannons on the Gunship battle.\r\rL’épreuve du croisé - The entrance is in Icecrown, in the north. Just fly there from Dalaran. Very straight forward Raid.\r\rI do these on as many characters as I have time for, and make gold by vendoring everything, but AHing Etoffe de tisse-givre.\r\r\r\rFollower Missions\r\r\r\rWith lots of alts, you can make some good gold per day with just Follower Missions. 6.1 Update: Make sure to get some Treasure Hunter followers, or use trait re-rolls to try to get it. This will increase your gold a lot. 6.2 Update: They have nerfed the amount of High Value gold missions across multiple characters, but they are still worth doing missions on for Gold, Gear (to vendor), Follower items (to vendor), Primals (to convert to Sang sauvage), Runic pouches (to sell), Oil (if you're interested in a shipyard), etc.\r\rMake sure to prioritize Gold Missions before any other. If your alt is level 100, do the gear missions too. They can just be vendored if they are not an upgrade, for a bit more gold. Garrison Resources are also good to get, because they can be converted into Mats to sell with a Trading Post.\r\rAnother thing is to make sure you have Salvage Yards. I am getting L3 Salvage Yards on all my level 100s. The bags and crates net a good amount of gold, just from vendoring the stuff in them. If you know what might be sought after transmog items, you can make more off the AH. 6.2 Update: Although Salvage Crates are not guaranteed from level 100 missions, you still get about 5 for each 10 missions. The rewards have also been nerfed somewhat, but they are still worth doing.\r\rI run follower missions twice a day. Once in the morning before work, and once in the evening. This makes sure all are complete (even the 10h ones). You can obviously do them more frequently if you want.\r\rAnother thing to do is have the Trading Post and make gold using it. Fill up the Work Orders when they're taking Herbs, and the buy Poussière draenique when it only costs 4 Ressources de fief each, and sell on the AH. They sell for about 1g80s - 2g50s depending on the server. You can buy other stuff for 4 Ressources de fief each if you think you can get more for them than Poussière draenique\r\rProfessions\r\rIf you have lots of alts, and have most, or all, professions covered, you can make lots of gold by selling items on the AH.\r\r\r\r\rI craft Potion d'Agilité draenique with Ignescente.\rI craft Flacon d'Intelligence draenique with Bourrache and Orchidée de Talador I upgrade them to Flacon d'Intelligence supérieure draenique with Feu ensorceleur and Catalyseur alchimique.\r\rI find that these sell well. I just use the herbs I get from the Herb Gardens, but you could make even more money buying the herbs from the AH and crafting these.\r\rSee what potions and Greater flasks are selling best on your server, and craft those.\r\rAnother alternative is just craft Pierre philosophale draenique and vendor it. It takes 5 Catalyseur alchimique and 1 Minerai de vérifer, working out at a value of almost 5g per Catalyst.\r\r\r\rBardiche en forgeacier is a good weapon to craft. There's also the 640 gear.\r\rEssence de forgeacier and Essence de véracier are good to craft if you have the mats. They will bring in tons of gold.\r\rSee what Blacksmithing gear or weapons are selling best on your server, and craft those.\r\r\r\rCraft Gift of.......... (Neck, Cloak, or Ring). You can craft one every 4 days, or more often if you decide to buy Cristal temporel off the AH or use Dust for the Work Orders. An alternative is to just sell Cristal temporel.\r\rMastery and Multistrike was selling best for me on my server. Check your server for which 'Gift' is selling the best, and whether it be better just selling Cristal temporel.\r\r\r\rYou can craft Déchiqueteur de Déchiquefer and the Goggles if you want. But I've found these don't sell for much because the Guns can only be used by Hunters, and the Goggles can only be used by Engineers.\r\rI've also found that the Pets don't sell very well.\r\rI would recommend crafting the upgrades Pignon autobloquant de Grasmaillon and Gâchette en vérifer. This may take a while, but will bring in the best gold.\r\r\r\rI wouldn't recommend crafting Darkmoon cards unless you're willing to do some heavy trading. Too RNG based and not worth the effort IMHO. I also don't think the glyph market is worth it either.\r\rI would craft the Staves: Bâton magique cristal-de-feu and Bâton de guerre à la lame gravée. I've found that these sell pretty well.\r\rAlso, craft the upgrades Tarot ensorcelé, and Cristal d'arme if you have the mats. They will bring in lots of gold.\r\rSee what's selling best on your server.\r\r\r\rYou can craft the gear if there's a market for it on your server. I've found that Rings and Neck pieces don't sell that well.\r\rI would suggest crafting Taladite de coup critique supérieure and Taladite de maîtrise supérieure. Those are the two that seem to go for most on my server.\r\rAlso, you can craft the upgrades Amplificateur de taladite. It should bring in lots of gold.\r\rCheck which Greater gems are selling best on your server.\r\rAnd make sure to do the Jewelcrafting Daily each day (need a Follower assigned to the Gem Boutique for this). For some mats, you will get about 150-300 gold.\r\r\r\rThere is lots of 640 gear you can craft. See what's most in demand on your server.\r\rYou can also craft upgrade Essence brunie. It should bring in lots of gold.\r\r\r\rThere is lots of 640 gear you can craft. See what's most in demand on your server.\r\rYou can also craft Sac en trame-sort. Craft and sell these if they go for more than 640 gear you can make.\r\rAlso, you can craft the upgrade Essence de trame-sort. It should bring in lots of gold.\r\r\r\rYou may be asking - where do I get all the Sang sauvage needed for all the upgrade items if I want to make those. Well, there are a couple of ways. If you're doing your Garrison mines and Herb Gardens on your alts, you'll get tons of Esprit primordial. These can be traded for Sang sauvage. Another way is to get an L3 Barn and start trapping Elites in Nagrand. Submitting these for Work Orders gives you Festin sauvage\/Fourrure somptueuse\/Peau de bête brute, with one Sang sauvage per work order (6.2). I use both of these methods. Note that if you can't be bothered figuring out which upgrades sell best, you can always just sell the Sang sauvage.\r\r6.1 Update: There are new recipes for the crafting mats that you can crafting without waiting for the daily CD. These require Esprit primordial and a small amount of base mats. This can really increase your rate of crafting.\r\rSell Left Over Garrison Materials\r\rAfter doing all your crafting daily stuff, if you have lots of mines and gardens, you will have some left over materials. I find I have lots of left over Ore, but not too many left over herbs. That's because I've use most for Potions and Flasks, and some more for milling for my Scribe. I use Sagittaire de Nagrand for milling, so I usually only have Dionée de Gorgrond left from all my Herbs, even after my Tailors and Leatherworker have used it.\r\rSo, I usually sell Dionée de Gorgrond, Minerai rochenoire, and Minerai de vérifer.\r\rEven though these only sell for about 50s-80s each, you get so many of them that this keeps bringing in the gold too.\r\r6.1 Update: Because you can trade Herbs and Ore for Esprit primordials (and then to Savage Blood), Herbs and Ore are now going for more than 1g each. Also, with the Herb and Ore Traders, you can trade the Ore and Herbs for Esprit primordials, and then buy Sang sauvage for 50 Esprit primordial. So it's 250 Ore or 250 Herbs for a Sang sauvage. Decide which is worth more to you.\r\r6.2 Update: Sang sauvage only requires 25 Esprit primordials now. It sells for less on the Ah, but it's still worth converting them. Or make the upgrade items that require Sang sauvage . They're still in demand.\r\rTanaan Jungle\r\rIf you get all your alts through the first few quests and get Shipyards set up to get into Tanaan, there's stuff you can do there for gold. One thing is to do Seigneur suprême Kazzak on all of them. This will give you a great supply of Sylvechancre that you can sell on the AH, or use to make Mighty and Savage Upgrade items that sell for a lot. You can do this once per week.\r\rAlso, you can do dailies there, that award 40-60 odd gold, and you'll also get lots of gold off mobs, and you can farm for more Felblight while you're doing them.\r\rAnother thing you can do on all your alts is to down the 4 rare Elites in Tanaan Jungle for a chance of Médaillon de la Légion. This sells for about 5Kg on most servers.\r\rThe rares are: Compresseur funeste, Poing-de-terreur, Vengeance, and Serres-mort. You can do these ones per day.\r\rI wouldn't recommend running the Shipyard for gold once you get it set up. It's not a good source of gold at all, and it's a real GR sink, that could be used at your Trading Post for more gold.\r\r6.2.3 Update: The Shipyard is actually worth doing now. Ships don't get destroyed on > 90% missions, and are less likely to be destroyed on other missions. There are plenty of gold missions, and once you have 10 ships, you can be bringing in gold, Apexis, Sorcerous, and Baleful items. This will bring you a good amount of gold (offsetting what you've spent on them easily), and over time they will bring in a lot of gold.\r\rOther stuff\r\rOther things you can do is questing (if you're leveling alts), and running LFR (awards 154gold for each wing) on your level 100 characters. And, as of 6.1, if you get Muradin\/Saurfang in your Garrison and haven't done the weekly quest yet, go do the wing required (Walled City, Slagworks etc.). 154g + 60g for the quest + a 645 piece of gear (with a chance of 655). You can visit someone else's garrison, if you don't have Muradin\/Saurfang in yours. This is even easier in 6.2.3, because there of quick queues because people are doing it for Valor, and quick runs, because everyone is highly geared.\r\rThere's always just playing the AH, too. But I'm not going to delve into that. You can buy low, sell high, or buy and craft and sell, or all sorts of stuff. There are other guides for this.\r\rAnother place to look\r\rIf you're more serious about making gold, and want to see how to do it from every possible angle, with a wealth of information, check out The Gold Queen's website:\r\rhttp:\/\/www.thegoldqueen.com\/\r\rIn Closing\r\rIf you don't have an army of alts and can't do everything in the guide, just pick and choose which bits you want to do. If you have any other good gold making advice that doesn't involve playing the AH, just leave some comments.\r\rThat's about it. I hope you got value out of this guide for making gold with alts in Warlords of Draenor, and don't forget to vote.\\\r\rAnd one final thing. The key thing about making money in WoW, is NOT SPENDING ANY!

Commentaire de Nishika

All leftover reagents are put into trading post, to convert to garrison ressources.When the trader in the Trading Post sells Draenic Dust for 20 garrison ressources per 5, use all your ressources buying up these.Always make sure the Enchanter's Study queue is full, and have a lvl 100 follower assigned to x2 the output. Sell the Temporals on AH.Do the Jewelcrafting daily every day.Having lvl 3 inn unlocks missions with larger money rewards. Always prio money missions first, then any other gear and lvl 100+ missions to make sure you get salvage bags. Sort the salvage, some goes to AH, but most is vendored.

This nets me an average of 3.000-3.500 gold per character, per day, measured over one week of doing all the above on my 3 lvl 100 characters.

Commentaire de Constantime

When at the back of a long raid or instance like Grim Batol, I will make a gear set titled 'naked' where I have no gear equipped, and then I'll jump off a ledge and kill myself. You spawn in the graveyard outside and just have a short run back to the entrance instead of a long walk back through a long raid. Saves a lot of time. Works really well for repeat runs.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Note: Even though they nerfed some of the drops (things like Living Amber etc), the Cata Raids are still bringing in almost the same amount of gold (minus about 20-50). Still worth doing.

Commentaire de zazuba69

Steps for a successful spine of deathwing kill(note this works best if you can rapidly heal yourself):

AOE down the first 4 tentacles to make aberrations and then force a roll to clear them off.

kill 10 bloods while moving side to side across the middle of the spine (this triggers rolls, but if you do it fast enough, deathwing won't actually roll)

kill tentacle and drag aberration through bloods

kill aberration near the front while still strafing back and forth to trigger rolls

kill tendon

go back to step 2 and repeat 2 more times

Commentaire de lankybrit

Updated for 6.1.

Commentaire de Nakama

This is a great and simple guide and pretty much what I do on my characters to bring the gold in. I've gotten tired of playing the AH, so I'd just rather do this stuff. :)

Commentaire de heixia

Nice guide! A full clear of Firelands (leaving a bit of trash) got me 825 gold by selling the BOP's, BOE's, and any junk.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Updated with a bit about using the Trading Post on your Garrison to make gold.

Also a note. I've just hit 1M gold using these techniques, and that's not counting the 136K I already spent on WoW Tokens.

Commentaire de Nulgar

Maraudin = Muradin ;) and Saurfang for the Horde. Also mention you can jump to other people's Garrisons if you don't have them in yours until the day you want to run LFR. Easy with the Group Finder.

In addition, it's more than three different weeklies now, see that recent thread of yours.

You should also mention the mount drops for ICC, FL and DS.

Commentaire de Urion

You should do Cataclysm raids on 25 heroic. Firelands will give you 910 + - only from the gold that drops off the bosses - 130 + - it is plus a lot of drops for vendor. All Cataclysm bosses - Baradin Hold which doesnt have heroic difficulty drop this amount = 3640 gold just from looting bosses - epic drops. That's not a sum to throw away each week.

Commentaire de mikequesnell

Great write up,Everything I seem to look up on here is years old with comments.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Mostly updated for 6.2. I still need to do more on the Professions though.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Some new updates. Check the changelog.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Just a quick update.

Gold from Garrison missions will be going away when Legion hits.

So, make hay while the sun shines, comes to mind.

Do the Garrison missions with your Treasure Hunters. Here's what you get per week:

Approx 2.3K in gold just from gold missions per character.Approx 700g just from vendoring contents of Salvage Crates, and any other vendorable stuff (like gear, Follower upgrades etc.) from missions during the week.

That's 3K just from doing Garrison missions twice a day.

I do it on 22 characters, so I get 66K a week.

That's not even counting what you get from missions that you can sell on the AH, like Champion's Honor and Bulging Barrel of Oil etc. Also, doesn't take into account the Draenic Dust you can get from your GRs.

So, Garrisons are a goldmine. Use them while you can.

Commentaire de lankybrit

Gold from Garrison missions and Shipyards will be going away on July 19th (tomorrow).

So, instead of doing those, look in your quest log and look on the map. Have you completed all of Draenor yet? If not, do any quests in zones you haven't completed yet, and do Bonus Objectives you haven't done. You can also kill any rares you haven't yet, and find treasures you haven't yet.

You can also queue for LFR while you're at it for a bit more gold from the run, and from the gear and any re-rolls you do.

Commentaire de lankybrit

It looks like rewards in Northrend Raids have actually been buffed. ICC and Trial of Crusader are definitely worth doing on 25N.